Alexander Margaritoff

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Alexander Margaritoff (born November 9, 1952 ; † May 22, 2016 ) was a German entrepreneur .

Life

Margaritoff studied business administration at the University of Sussex and then worked at a bank in Frankfurt am Main . After the death of his father Peter in 1981, he and his brother Dimiter took over the wine mail order company Hawesko , which was founded in 1964 and is now one of the leading wine retailers in Europe. In the course of a takeover battle, Margaritoff prematurely gave up the position of CEO of Hawesko Holding AG on April 30, 2015 and sold his 30% stake to Tocos Beteiligungs GmbH of Supervisory Board Chairman Detlev Meyer .

In November 2015 Margaritoff acquired 0.79 percent of the shares in HSV Fußball AG , which operates the professional soccer department of Hamburger SV , for EUR 3.8 million .

In May 2016 Margaritoff died at the age of 63 years to cancer .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alexander Margaritoff dead , nikos-weinwelten.de, May 24, 2016, accessed on May 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ See page 9 of the 2009 Annual Report of Hawesko Holding AG (PDF; 2.05 MB)
  3. ^ The share: Hawesko , Welt Online , September 28, 2003, accessed on November 27, 2015.
  4. ↑ The customer in focus - since 1964 , hawesko-holding.com, accessed on November 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ Hawesko boss Margaritoff goes earlier than planned , Welt Online, March 26, 2015, accessed on November 26, 2015.
  6. ↑ Power struggle at Hawesko decided - boss Margaritoff leaves, Meyer takes over , Manager Magazin , January 20, 2015, accessed on November 26, 2015.
  7. ↑ Sven Clausen: Ex-Hawesko owner joins HSV. In: www.manager-magazin.de. Retrieved on May 26, 2016 (German).
  8. ↑ Former Hawesko boss Alexander Margaritoff has died , Finance , May 25, 2016, accessed on May 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Margaritoff, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1952
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 2016